The Local Climate Contract

This work explores how designerly practices drawing from embodied sensemaking, can foster actionable systemic perspectives that allow for co-response-ability in the formulation of a Climate City Contract city Umeå, Sweden. The paper describes design and facilitation process 3 cross-disciplinary roundtable conversations build on notions thriving together, making kin commoning. main aim is to contribute creating alternative collaborative develop means acknowledge complexity — our entanglement with challenges. Such are necessary addressing mission-driven approach public sector Europe adopting. outcomes this research point toward three elements might such an ability respond together propose ways building resilient practices: (1) stimulating emergence situated knowledge be shared used, (2) legitimacy within ecosystem through exploration perspective, (3) cultivating trans-disciplinary interconnectedness actors aesthetics.